Blizzard: Ignorantly eager to kill all the success of Classic

[Torasin-thrall]

Paid for game time, not queue time. It is not our fault they did not see the massive excitement for the game that was the best MMO made.

[Aredict-dalaran]

I don’t know why some people feel some kind of loyalty towards companies to the point where they feel the need to defend them against criticism.

It’s perfectly to understandable that someone that has paid for a certain product would be upset if said product either does not work as intended or if they are unable to enjoy said product because of avoidable circumstances. If you bought a washing machine but it doesn’t turn on when you’re about to do your laundry would you try to make excuses for the manufacturer while waiting for someone to come fix it? Get real. You’d be upset too.

It’s because of people like you that companies are not held accountable or held to a higher standard of quality.

You’re 1,000,000% right.

Saying “BLIZZARD IS LITERALLY LETTING CLASSIC FAIL TO BOOST RETAIL’S NUMBERS” is a very legitimate, well thought out, and even reasonable thing to suggest.

Edit: By the way, comparing a one-time cost, offline, mechanical appliance to an online, live-updated, variable-demand service is God-tier analytics.

[Ptirsha-moon-guard]

The comments on this stuff are just ridiculous. Blizzard makes servers. They get full. Players are outraged. You are complete idiots.

[Ravensèyé-tichondrius]

They had years to prepare for this. They saw how crazy it was going to be with how many reserved names.

They either screwed up or chose this. There’s not that many options.

[Drougen-emerald-dream (Drougen)]

They did not release enough realms for us to roll on at the beginning, and have since opened over 20 more since launch.

This is what infuriates me the most. Like if I KNOWINGLY rolled on a high pop server and had ques, fine, I did that to myself. But the LACK of servers and opening 20 AFTER launch (completely negating any kind of player choice, pre-name registering, or guild choices) is just embarrassing.

They are doing nothing to try and stem the flow of subscribers since it appears their philosophy is still, meh, nobody will truly want to play it.

I mean, they said they would offer server transfers. They should have had that option available from day one. Sure people only put in a day or 2 worth of work, but that’s not just regular playing. That’s fighting against 100+ other people

Now, we have 10 hour queues where a mere DC can put you back in it and names saved on crazy high pop servers because they did not release any more to choose from.

Preach the truth!

This is insane. I have over half our group just sitting in queue while the others are leveling. By the time we all get in we will be so spread out this will not be the game we were hoping for.

Yup and that’s IF you’re lucky and people weren’t impatient and said “I’m just gonna start on this server instead”

We will all be divided again instead of enjoying it together.

Too true

This is a rough day and all could have been avoided if they had just taken our love for “not retail” seriously.

It’s even more ridiculous because they KNEW it was going to be highly populated.

[Torasin-thrall]

We have already had some rolling other servers, splintering off. Fun times.

[Hugjug-arthas]

What we need is a wow classic cell phone app that keeps your line in the que, so you can log in at work to wait in line, by the time you get home you can play!

[Drougen-emerald-dream (Drougen)]

We have already had some rolling other servers, splintering off. Fun times.

Yup, my friend group pretty much got torn in half. At this rate I may be the only one sticking to our original server / guild choice. It’s so dumb.

[Holyrunt-dunemaul]

Join a different server?

And since your going to mention it: why did your guild agree to settle down on a server with long que if its a problem?

[Furrydots-the-underbog]

so your saying to leave the community guild behind that blizzard told me to join 2 weeks ago, and had me reserve a name on the same server as this guild 2 weeks ago. to start fresh with most likely a character name I did not initially want, with nobody I know to play with, all because I did what blizzard suggested, thinking, surely they will make sure I can get in and play… when instead I get told “go play on a different server mate” like its some single player game where the multiplayer function does not matter… what a joke

[Minusthemage-thrall]

And you dont make 30k and then go bankrupt because you wasted resources on 10k cupcakes and made $0 and in fact lost some.

This is my point. Even if you only made 5k and had 20k people show up you still made profit but if you made 30k and only had a 15% profit margins you just went into debt to give way cupcakes…

YOU NEVER OVER INVEST. Because even if you under invest you still profit. Ideally you get it perfect but you NEVER go over or you can never afford to try it again.

[Sevaryn-nerzhul (Sevaryn)]

Retail is more challenging than Classic though?

autoattacks retail mobs to death in travel form without losing health

I’m sorry, what?

[Shinyuu-gurubashi]

Well, the prez of the company still thinks this is a fad…even tho there are 300k or so ppl sittin in queues today…

[Monziezomby-area-52]

People’s guilds and friends are there, nothing to do with streamers for many.

[Ravensèyé-tichondrius]

They aren’t an indie developer or some small time business. This is widely regarded as the best MMORPG ever made and had millions of accounts set up on one private server alone. It wasn’t hard to see the storm coming.

[Pyrotek-khadgar]

The point is… Blizzard should be good enough at “making servers” that they don’t let 25,000 roll on servers they KNOW cannot hold that many people.
You don’t think they could have just closed servers to rolling new toons on when they got full?
I know that would make way too much sense but…

[Sevaryn-nerzhul (Sevaryn)]

To be completely fair, it is reasonable to expect a good chunk of people currently playing to drop off quickly – if not the people who actually wanted classic and came back for it, then the retail folks who never played it, try it, and decide it’s not their thing.

The catch is that the server populations have to be robust enough after that happens to continue into the future. So they’re understandably reluctant to make 100 servers and then have 3/4 of them die.

Of course, the solution is just to be less shy about merging them. They’re afraid of the pen-pushers and investors seeing server merges as a death roll instead of responsibly managing a population in the long term – which is why we got CRZ instead of more connected realms.

[Lunvara-sargeras]

Bro, all pvp servers are full.

[Olov-gorefiend]

this will kill a lot of guilds, people won’t want to lose their progress if they got in and the rest of the guild wants to move to another server too

[Pyrotek-khadgar]

Who says they had to “overinvest”? These days they are all on cloud servers. They can create them at will as they are needed.
Having to (possibly) combine a few smaller servers later down the line is FAR better than pi**ing people off now.